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Shortly before the Farnborough airshow Dassault accomplished the first autonomous flight of its AVE-D UAV demonstrator.

Boeing Commercial Airplanes forecasts a $3.2 trillion requirement for some 29,400 commercial jetliners with capacity for more than 29 passengers from 2008

Simulation and training specialist CAE is about to embark on a full-scale beta test of the new multi-crew pilot’s license (MPL) curriculum it developed to

Crossair, Europe’s largest regional airline, spreads its wings next month when it formally takes over Swissair routes following the national carrier’s bank

Mesaba Airlines has served notice that it no longer wants to play second fiddle to Express Airlines I when Northwest Airlines orchestrates the distribution

A major research program launched three years ago by the European Union has identified open rotors and natural laminar flow as key technologies to be taken

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The University of North Dakota placed an order with Cessna for 25 Skyhawks, marking a return of the model to the school’s flight program.

Deliveries of the Eurocopter UH-72A (EC 145) Lakota to the U.S.

Industria Controls, a French subsidiary of California-based Circor Aerospace, has been selected by Claverham Ltd to provide an integrated pressure switch f

The Yak-130 advanced jet trainer is not cavorting about the skies over Farnborough, but company executives are on hand at the Irkut stand (Hall 1 E8) to di

Cessna has selected Innovative Power Solutions to provide power conversion for the new Citation CJ4 business jet.

The hundreds of billions of dollars worth of airliner orders now on the books will help insulate aerospace manufacturing companies from the industry crisis

Eurocopter Canada has announced the delivery of its 500th helicopter in the country–an AS355 NP Ecureuil light twin.

That a bomber which first entered service in the late 1950s should still excite attention whenever it appears in the skies is obvious to those fortunate en

Gulfstream has recruited company veteran Robert Cowart to be the new director of supersonic technology development.

In spite of the sagging U.S.

Canada’s CAE announced last week that a Boeing 777 full-flight simulator (FFS) built for Delta Air Lines is the first to achieve level-D qualification unde

Last week Marshall Specialist Vehicles delivered a second ground control station shelter to BAE Systems Integrated Systems Technologies (Insyte) for use wi

Alenia Aermacchi’s first pre-production M-346 lead-in fighter trainer made its official maiden flight on July 7 with Aermacchi chief test pilot Olinto Cecc

Snecma Services has signed a three-year maintenance contract with privately-owned Bahrain Air to support the CFM56-5A engines that power the carrier’s flee

The Art of Flight is the title of an exhibition of paintings produced by David Bent on show in Hall 4.

Bell Helicopter on July 5 opened its new 38,000-square-foot Canadian supply center at Calgary International Airport in Canada.

Although the name Embraer is known throughout the world, Brazil’s aviation industry consists of much more than the manufacture of regional airliners, a gro

Elbit Systems has been awarded a contract valued at some $20 million to supply Hermes 450 UAV systems to an unnamed European country.

After regaining profitability for the first time since 2000, the world’s airlines are heading for another downturn, predicts U.S.-based analyst Forecast In

The Teamcenter product lifecycle management suite being demonstrated here by Plano, Texas-headquartered Siemens PLM Software (Hall 3, Stand C6) has played

Fairs & Exhibitions Aerospace, which runs the Dubai Airshow and other events in the Middle East, has named Heather Rezek as general manager.

The Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) announced last week that it appointed Bruno Esposito as its new director of civil air transport.

Seeing the North Carolina state flag hoisted in an exhibit at a major international air show isn’t all that surprising considering that the area is home to